Get your DNA read at 23andme (when the FDA unchains them) and then find out how broken it is and fix it with Exogen’s great new citizen scientist kit on how broken your DNA is. This is one of the…
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I love the concept of designing drones. I met the co-founder of Matternet, Paola Santana, and liked her and her company. So, here’s more – a posting from my original time sink, Craigslist. A stealth mode company needs a…
Matt Mickiewicz’s life is a series of destructive events. How long ago would that have represented the history of a psychopathic criminal? Today, it is the heart and soul of pitches to VC’s and angels and crowdfunding events. Matt…
Joseph Campbell is relevant anywhere. Let’s bring him into Silicon Valley with these words of his: “The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there is something lacking in the normal…
UPDATE, July 16, 2014 I am so behind on Theranos stories but have to comment on today’s Palo Alto paper’s comparison of Elizabeth Holmes to Mark Zuckerberg. I say NO! Compare her to no one! Give her credit for…
Theranos has a clever sign. Nice. I like it. It is sitting in front of its new home, under construction on Page Mill Rd in Palo Alto. It’s a large campus. Very large. Biggest start up building I have…
Big data is morphing into hyper data. Big data was the buzz word but it wasn’t big enough so it moved at hyper speed. And now it is hyper data. So the next thing will be data faster…
Two issues here. 23andme’s marketing strategy changed dramatically in the recent past. It became “in your face” in a retail consumer manner, morphing quickly from a more subtle place. Genetic testing was more mainstream now than even a year…
UPDATE: March 17, 2019 – This is an old post on Theranos. I began writing about Elizabeth Holmes in 2013. This is the first. Start here. An Almost Great Palo Alto Start Up To see all the posts…
3D printing of DNA is here. Making kids and dinosaurs is possible and Cambrian Genomics is taking you there.…